Final Exam Review

What problem did many farmers have under the sharecropping system?        

• They were forced to grow cash crops instead of food.
•  They often were trapped in a cycle or circle of debt.
•  Many sharecroppers were forced to buy goods on credit. 
•    All choices are true.

Which amendment guaranteed that states could not limit the rights of citizens and could not take away life, liberty, or property without due process?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Jim Crow Laws passed after Reconstruction took away African American Voting Rights using...

• Voter Registration Laws
• Political Gerrymandering
• Voter Identification Laws
• Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Tinker vs. DesMoines

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market? 

• boats
• railroads
• automobiles
• horse drawn carriages 

One reason nativists worried about influx of immigrants in 1880s...

• Feared immigrants gain control of city and state governments
• Believed immigrants receive preferential treatment from federal government and receive land
• Thought country's ports could not handle increasing numbers of immigrants and exports
• Considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe a threat to traditional American cultural values

The total or complete control of a service, product or industry that prevents competition

• Union
• Robber Barron
• Monopoly
• Captain of Industry

The theory or policy that the government will not interfere with business

• Socialism
• National Market
• Laissez Faire
• Philanthropy

The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1800 and 1860 came from 

• Latin America
• East Asia
• southern and eastern Europe
• northern and western Europe

In the late 19th century, the ideas of Social Darwinism were used primarily to 

• explain the differences in income between the rich and the poor
• urge Congress to end immigration
• encourage the passage of compulsory education laws
• support the growth of new political parties